#space sims

Mercury: Gen 1

Color: Blue Gray

Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system and closest to the sun. Mercury’s temperature fluctuates from extremely hot to extremely cold every day, due to its close proximity to the sun. Mercury is also the fastest planet, zipping around the sun every 88 earth days.

You are a bright-eyed freshly adult sim and you can’t wait to see the world! Your friends always joke about how you’re basically a human golden retriever. You love adventure and you are loyal to a fault, but you can also be hot-headed and cruel if done wrong. It’s kind of difficult to figure you out. You long to experience new things and see what the world has to offer you!

Traits: Active, Hot-Headed, Goofball

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

Generation Goals:

Complete your aspiration

Go through multiple jobs before eventually deciding to be unemployed and do odd jobs in your free time

Master the mischief and charisma skills

Go on a jog at least every week

Have at least one best friend who isn't your spouse

Go on a vacation at least once

If you have height sliders, make your sim short: Mercury is the smallest planet!

Mercury is riddled with craters so add freckles, acne, or moles to your sim

Have at least one child

Venus: Gen 2

Color: Yellow and Orange

Venus, occasionally known as Earth’s twin, is similar in size and shape as the green planet. However, Venus is incredibly dense, the hottest planet in the solar system, and contains crushing air pressure. Venus was the first planet to be explored by spacecraft, and has gotten more than 40 spacecraft visitors. Venus spins in the opposite direction to most other planets.

Your parents always saw the best in the world, and you never understood why. To you, life is harsh and unforgiving, so to protect yourself, you become harsh and unforgiving in return. You grow up with an acidic tongue and push everyone away, preferring to focus on your career. The only problem? You’re the most attractive person in any room, and it becomes increasingly difficult to push away infatuated love interests.

Traits: Mean, Snob, and Perfectionist

Aspiration: Any

Generation Goals:

Complete your aspiration

Master the lawyer career; that biting attitude can be useful!

Go through multiple partners that you brutally break up with before a kind-hearted sim melts away your tough exterior 

Marry your one true love and throw a lavish wedding

Have at least one child

Live in the desert; you prefer the heat

Earth: Gen 3

Color: Seafoam Green

Earth is the only planet that we know of that is capable of supporting life. Most of Earth’s surface is covered in water, and is protected by our atmosphere. 

Growing up, you looked up to and adored your grandparent; you loved the way they saw the world and wanted to fix it! Ever since you were a kid you’ve always wanted to be just like them. You were always the most trusting of your family too. You have a natural green thumb, and love being outdoors and gardening. You have a strong maternal/paternal instinct and can’t wait to have kids. After failing to conceive multiple times however, you finally have a baby, and you vow to protect and love them till your dying breath.

Traits: Child of the Ocean, Loves Outdoors, and Family Orientated

Aspiration: Freelance Botanist

Generation Goals:

Complete your aspiration

Master the parenting and gardening skills

Master the conservationist career

Have a garden

Live in either Sulani or Evergreen Harbor

Either own a swimming pool or live on an ocean lot

Have only one child and become best friends with them

The Moon: Gen 4

Color: Silver

The moon is Earth’s only satellite, and an important feature in stabilizing the earth. The moon controls Earth’s tides and how it wobbles on its axis. The moon is the only place that humans have set foot on beyond Earth. It is also littered with craters and holes from asteroids, thanks to its thin atmosphere.

Your parent and you have always had a special bond. Since you have multiple chronic illnesses, you’ve been doted on since birth. You went everywhere with your parent, and now that you’re an adult, you’re finding it hard to fly the nest. You've been offered a position at your dream university, but can you risk breaking your parent’s heart by moving so far away? And even more pressing, will you be able to make it on your own?

Traits: Genius, Lazy, Family-Orientated

Aspiration: Academic 

Generation Goals: 

Have some kind of disability or illness (can be incorporated with custom content)

Have a pet; this will be your service animal

Have lots of freckles, moles, or acne, as the moon has many craters

Live with your parents until young adult, then join the university of your dreams

Maintain good grades throughout university and graduate with honors

Join and master your preferred career after you graduate 

Complete your aspiration

Master the logic and wellness skills

Call your parent every day

Have at least one child

Near the end of your parent’s life, move back in with them and continue to raise your family there

Mars: Gen 5 

Color: Red

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it's the only planet where we've sent rovers to roam the alien landscape. These robotic explorers have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago.

As a child, your parents always taught you to stick up for yourself. They wanted you to be ambitious and self-assured. You grew up in the suburbs and you loved it, but you have always been the wild child of the family. You long to explore the vast universe and make it your goal to discover universes that no one has seen before. Even though you’re a hyperactive coffee addict with a taste for adventure and freedom, you also want to find someone who understands you. Maybe that special someone lives among the stars?

Traits: Ambitious, Self-Assured, Romantic

Aspiration: Soulmate

Generation Goals:

Complete your aspiration 

Join either the astronaut or scientist career and master it 

Master the logic and rocket science skills

Go to Sixam and befriend an alien 

Marry your alien friend

Complete the space prints collection

Have three children at most

Optional: Solve the Strangerville mystery

Jupiter: Gen 6

Color: White and Coffee Brown

Fifth in line from the Sun, Jupiter is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system – more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years. Jupiter also has rings, but they're too faint to see very well. Jupiter has more than 75 moons.

Your parents have always been obsessed with space. They always made you watch sci-fi movies as a kid, enrolled you in astronomy classes, and dressed you as an astronaut every Halloween. The rest of your family loved it, and you didn’t really mind it too much, but you were more interested in keeping your head out of the clouds. You much prefer reading over science and rainy days with tea over flying through outer space. All you’ve ever wanted was a quiet life, free from the chaos of your family. To put it simply; you are the embodiment of dark academia.

Traits: Bookworm, Cat Lover, Art Lover

Aspiration: Bestselling Author

Generation Goals:

Own a cat

Go on a museum date every week

Write books and sell them for a living or officially join the author career

Complete your aspiration

Master the writing, piano, and archeology skills

Have a birthmark (Jupiter’s Great Red Spot)

Own a coffee machine or tea maker

Have a room dedicated to the artifacts you have recovered

Optional: Become a spell caster and reach the top of your preferred magic path

Have at least five children (Jupiter has a lot of moons!)

Saturn: Gen 7

Color: Light pink

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in our solar system. Adorned with thousands of beautiful ringlets, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings—made of chunks of ice and rock—but none are as spectacular or as complicated as Saturn's.

You were raised in a very hectic household. You have so many siblings that your parents didn’t always pay that much attention to you. And you love attention. You and your siblings get along, but you can’t stand that they got more attention than you. Once you become a young adult, you move out and decide to make something of yourself. That’ll show them! You hide behind an overly confident exterior in order to hide your true feelings. You just want someone to love you for all of you- even the ugly parts. But true love is harder to find than you thought. And it doesn’t help that the paparazzi keep eyeing every person you go on a date with. (To be honest, you don’t mind the attention that much).

Traits: Materialistic, Outgoing, Self-Absorbed

Aspiration: Party Animal or World-Famous Celebrity

Generation Goals: 

Complete your aspiration

Join the social media or acting career and master it

Master the acting, media production, and charisma skills

Reach at least three star celebrity status

Wear lots of jewelry, especially rings

Always be overdressed

Have five good friends

Get divorced or leave someone at the altar at least once

Have at least four children with at least two different partners

Get married as an adult for the last time to a co-star that understands you fully, and fell in love with you no matter your insecurities and faults

Uranus: Gen 8

Color: Light Blue or Icy Blue

Uranus is an ice giant. Most of its mass is a hot, dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane and ammonia – above a small rocky core. Uranus has 13 known rings. The inner rings are narrow and dark and the outer rings are brightly colored. Like Venus, Uranus rotates east to west. But Uranus is unique in that it rotates on its side.

Your parent was obsessed with the spotlight and their image in the media. They weren’t the worst parent, but they weren’t always around for the things that mattered. You got all A’s and exceeded at your extracurriculars, but nobody ever seemed to notice. You’re fine with it, honestly. Maybe it’s best that you fade into the background. You try to become a politician like your family expects of you, but it doesn’t feel right. It’s only after you reach half way through your career do you realize that all you’ve ever wanted was to help people and make a bigger impact than your parent did. Sure, passing laws and campaigning can do some good, but you have a better (and more action packed) idea to help the world.

Traits: Loner, Good, Gloomy

Aspiration: Any

Generation Goals:

Complete your aspiration

Master the parenting skill

Master the fitness skill

Get all A’s in school

Join the politician career until level five and then join the detective, secret agent, or military career and master it

Donate to charity and volunteer often

Have all of your children grow up with at least one good character value

Have at least two children

Have some kind of defining physical feature that makes you stand out (i.e. colored hair, tattoos, a birthmark, etc.)

Neptune: Gen 9

Color: Royal Blue

Dark, cold, and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system. Neptune has at least five main rings and four more ring arcs, which are clumps of dust and debris likely formed by the gravity of a nearby moon.

In your family, you’re kind of known as the perfectionist. You’re extremely blunt to the point of hurtful but you have good intentions. Some people describe you as cold, but deep down you have a heart 3 sizes too big. You like being known as the intimidating goth of the family, which is why no one can know you run a cutesy pastel veterinarian shop, which you co-own with your cutesy pastel partner. You insist to your family that you work as an accountant, which is just an excuse so that they never see you in your cute pink vet outfit.

Traits: Perfectionist, Vegetarian, Dog/Cat Lover or Animal Enthusiast

Aspiration: Friend of the Animals

Generation Goals: 

Dress in dark clothing; you look pretty intimidating

Have a fun loving partner that is the total opposite of your dark aesthetic that you love dearly 

Own a vet clinic

Complete your aspiration

Master the veterinarian and pet training skills

Never tell your family about your vet office; if they autonomously show up, make sure they don’t see you

Own a couple of pets

Have at least one child

Pluto: Gen 10

Color: Purple

Pluto – which is smaller than Earth’s Moon – has a heart-shaped glacier that’s the size of Texas and Oklahoma. This fascinating world has blue skies, spinning moons, mountains as high as the Rockies, and it snows – but the snow is red.

Growing up, you were surrounded by love. Your parents were total opposites but they loved each other dearly. When you were a teen, you had a few people who became romantically interested in you, but nothing ever felt right with them. You try desperately to find the love your parents had, but to no avail. When you become a young adult, you start to realize that maybe… Romantic love just isn’t for you. Instead, you pour your heart into your relationship with your friends. Hey, platonic love is better anyway!

Traits: Unflirty, Cheerful, Foodie

Aspiration: Friend of the World

Generation Goals: 

Complete your aspiration 

Run and own a shop of your choice (could be a restaurant or a retail store)

Master the singing, baking, and gourmet cooking skills

Move in with five of your closest friends into an apartment

Decorate your apartment with super colorful furniture

Always go to the flea market and buy a new piece of furniture every chance you get

Never marry or have a romantic partner 

Never have any kids

And that’s it! I tried not to make the challenge super difficult since I want players to make their stories unique and be able to create different storylines. Feel free to add on to this challenge, tweak it, and make it your own! If you want me to see how you’re planet inspired sims are doing, tag me @simsandstrawberries or tag your post with #thespacelegacychallenge or #tslc. I hope you enjoy and happy simming!!